• Irving is considered one of the best cities for starting a family in the United States
• 2 award-winning hospitals: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving and Medical City Las Colinas
• A state-of-the-art Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas offering a 50,000 sq-ft column free exhibit hall & more than 50,000 sq-ft of ballrooms, meeting & terrace space
• 14 performing & visual arts groups including an award-winning musical theatre company & professional symphony orchestras
• 5 golf courses including a championship golf course, TPC at Four Seasons Resort and Club

• 10,600 businesses call Irving home, including fifty-three fortune 500 companies
• 2nd lowest property tax & water rate of the ten comparable-sized cities in the North Texas region
• Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce is the first 5-star accredited chamber of commerce in Texas & runs a strong economic development partnership program
• Las Colinas is North Texas’ largest office park
• McKesson Corporation (5th biggest company in US) just announce it is moving it’s international headquarters to Las Colinas
• Exxon Corporation (2nd biggest company in US) has it’s international headquarters in Las Colinas.

• In 2012, the city of Irving became the first municipality in Texas (and the second in the nation) to receive the prestigious Malcolm A. Baldridge National Quality Award.
• There have been twenty-two winners of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Blue Ribbon Award from Irving Texas as of 2016.
• Wallet Hub named Irving as the best city in the U.S. for Starting a career.
• Bloomberg Businessweek named Irving as one of the top 50 places to live in America.
• Size Up recognized Irving as one of the top 3 cities in the U.S. for tech startups per capita.

Irving is home to more than 10,600 businesses and 53 Fortune 500 companies. As such, the city is busy with business travelers all week long. In the past year, there were 3.4 million visitors to Irving spending $2.3 billion, generating $55.6 million in taxes to the city.

IRVING CONVENTION CENTER AT LAS COLINAS

• Toyota Music Factory is located adjacent to the city’s new $133 million Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. Completed in 2011, the Irving Convention Center is 275,000 square feet and offers almost 100,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space.

HOTELS

• The City of Irving offers visitors a wide selection of hotel accommodations, in over 75 area hotels, representing nearly 12,000 sleeping rooms, no more than seven miles from The Toyota Music Factory site in Las Colinas. There are six full-service hotels in Las Colinas: Dallas Marriott Las Colinas, Omni Mandalay Las Colinas, Four Seasons Resort and Club – Dallas at Las Colinas, NYLO Las Colinas, Holiday Inn Select Las Colinas and Westin Irving Convention Center. Additionally, there are more than 20 other select service and all-suite hotels in Las Colinas.